PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL  Valence Electrons/Oxidation

CAGAYAN VALLEY CAMPUS General Topic 2: REDOX REACTIONS Numbers

Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya  Assigning Oxidation Numbers  Periodic Trends
 Balancing Redox Reaction
 Effective Nuclear Charge
SYLLABUS IN CHEMISTRY 1 Change –in- Oxidation Number
Method and Ion-electron  Atomic Size
Method  Ionic Size
Course Number and Title: Chemistry 1 –  Ionization Energy
Fundamentals in Chemistry General Topic 3: RADIOACTIVITY  Electron Affinity
 Nuclear Reactions: (alpha,
 Electronegativity
Course Description beta +, beta -, gamma, fusion,
Chemistry 1 is a one unit course designed to
fission, and transmutation) General Topic 6: CHEMICAL BONDING
enhance critical thinking and problem-solving
skills of Grade 9 students. These skills can help  Nuclear Equations
 Types of Chemical Bonds (ionic,
them in their laboratory activities then later  Applications of Radioactivity
covalent, coordinate covalent,
design their own experiments. At the end of  Half-life
the course, the students are expected to have metallic)
developed mastery of basic chemistry SECOND QUARTER  Lewis Symbols/Structure
principles and skills that will be needed in their  Octet Rule, Exceptions to the
advanced chemistry subjects. General Topic 4: GASEOUS STATE Octet Rule
 Kinetic Molecular Theory  Formal Charge
GENERAL TOPICS
 Pressure of Gases  Polyatomic ions
FIRST QUARTER:  Gas Laws: (Boyle’s, Charles’,  Resonance
General Topic 1: CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND Avogadro’s, Combined Gas  Geometry of Molecules: (
STOICHIOMETRY Valence Bond Theory, VSEPR
Laws, Ideal Gas, Dalton’s law of
partial pressure, Graham’s law Theory, Hybridization of hybrid
CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND STOICHIOMETRY
of Effusion) orbitals, sigma and pi bonds,
 Review of Chemistry part of IS
 Gas Stoichiometry bond polarity)
2
 Nomenclature of Inorganic  Molecular Orbital Theory : (
Chemical Compounds General Topic 5: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF Homonuclear 2nd period,
 Types of Chemical Reactions ATOMS AND PERIODICITY molecular orbitals, bond order,
 Balancing Chemical Equations paramagnetism and
 Empirical and Molecular  Atomic Structure Review
diamagnetism)
Formula  Atomic Mass
 Reaction Stoichiometry  Electronic configuration
 Limiting and Excess Reactants  Quantum Numbers
 Percent Yield  Periodic Table
THIRD QUARTER
General Topic 7: LIQUIDS, SOLIDS AND
CHANGES OF STATE
 Intermolecular Forces of
Attraction
 Properties of Liquids:
(viscosity, surface tension,
volatility, vapour pressure,
boiling point, capillary action,
adhesion, cohesion)
 Properties of Solids:
(Crystalline structure of Solids)
 Peculiar Properties of Water
 Phase Diagrams: (Critical point,
triple point, and the curves)
General Topic 8: SOLUTIONS
 Solute, Solvent and Solutions
 Factors Affecting Solubility
 Concentration Units: (Percent
Concentration, Molarity,
molality, normality, mole
fraction)
 Preparation of Solutions
 Solution Stoichiometry
Spontaneous and non-
spontaneous processes
Requirements
PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL
CAGAYAN VALLEY CAMPUS Laboratory Reports
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya Oral Reports
Recitations
Projects
Short and Long Quizzes
FOURTH QUARTER Periodical Exams
General Topic 9: COLLIGATIVE PROPERTIES
 Colligative Properties: ( Vapor
pressure lowering, boiling
point elevation, freezing point
depression and osmotic
pressure)
General Topic 10: THERMOCHEMISTRY
 First Law of Thermodynamics:
Changes in Internal Energy of a
system
 Calorimetry
 Thermochemical Equations:
Hess’s law
 Standard Enthalpies of
Formation
 Energy Diagrams: Endothermic
and Exothermic Reactions)
 Second law of
thermodynamics: Changes in
entropy of a system
 Free Energy (∆G=∆H - T∆S)